Example sentences of "from [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 2 | The harvested worm ranges in size from less than one tenth of an inch ( microworm size ) , to half inch ( grindal worm size ) , to full grown at one inch . |
| 3 | Right : A tropical chiggoe flea that has burrowed into the sole of a foot , gorged itself , laid eggs and been squeezed out , having grown from less than one millimetre wide to more than a centimetre . |
| 4 | Moreover , the proportion of women that had ever been married or in conjugal union by age 16 varied widely , from less than one per cent in the Republic of Korea to 87 per cent in Bangladesh . |
| 5 | The Model 375547 pressure reducer will monitor process gases continuously , over a size range from less than 0.01 μ m to greater than 0.5 μ m . |
| 6 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 7 | Between 1901 and 1981 the number of people in Britain aged over 65 rose from 1.7 million to almost 8 million , increasing as a proportion of the total population from less than 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 8 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 9 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 10 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 11 | This village , which is situated along the trail from Lukla to Everest Base Camp , has undergone tremendous changes as the number of tourists to Nepal has risen from less than 10 000 per year in 1960 to almost 250 000 in 1988 ; there are also plans to increase that number to c. 1 million by the year 2000 . |
| 12 | Although the report showed that the percentage of couples in developing countries using birth control had risen from less than 10 per cent in the 1960s to 51 per cent in 1991 , it stressed that its target of lowering global fertility from 3.8 to 3.3 births per woman required the number of couples using contraception in the developing world to rise from 381 million in 1990 to 567 million by 2000 . |
| 13 | A comparison of social product per head in the 1950s with that in 1986 ( in current dinars , unadjusted for regional differences in the cost of living ) shows a significant improvement for Montenegro ( from less than 60 per cent of the average to 77 per cent ) and , at the other end of the scale , for Vojvodina ( from less than the Yugoslav average to 21 per cent above it ) . |
| 14 | The $3.65bn buyout will increase the airline 's debt-equity ratio from less than 50 per cent to 585 per cent and NorthWest operates one of the oldest fleets in the industry , but Mr Skinner 's chief concern was the citizenship of KLM 's representative on the NorthWest board . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the West German coalition decided on April 23 to offer the East German government a 1:1 conversion rate for savings up to 4,000 Marks and for wages and pensions ( which latter would also be raised , from less than 50 per cent of wages to the West German level of 70 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Sizes in the sample ranged from less than 50 employees ( 20 per cent ) to over 1000 ( 3 per cent ) . |
| 17 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |
| 18 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 19 | From more than 80 strains , four have been singled out to be grown from seeds which are tested for protein , which helps them to withstand heat . |
| 20 | The centenary conference at Keble College will hear from more than 80 speakers on various aspects of Tolkien 's work . |
| 21 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
| 22 | In late November of that year , the first tenants moved into the building and the development almost immediately became the only award-winning refurbishment scheme in the Department of the Environment Housing Awards for 19891 , despite tough competition from more than four hundred entries . |
| 23 | A number of studies show a decline in stool frequency from more than four stools per day during the first week of life to 1.2 per day at four years of age with a corresponding increase in stool size . |
| 24 | There have been total bans in many other countries dating from more than five years ago . |
| 25 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 26 | In the last 12 months the number waiting for more than two years across the Yorkshire region dropped from more than 3,000 to just 16 . |
| 27 | The 15-year-old proposal aims to give the European Commission exclusive jurisdiction over the largest industrial mergers involving companies from more than one EC state . |
| 28 | Occasionally people from more than one lineage on each side had made peace , and people spoke then of a peace between some higher order entity than a small lineage : Ujdaid and Talib , Awlad Amira and Mannaia . |
| 29 | These include new wild-type strains with higher activities against particular pests , transconjugant strains that combine the activities from more than one wild-type strain , including strains that are active against both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera , and genetically engineered bacteria in which a Bt toxin gene is expressed . |
| 30 | It increases from more than one in every 2,000 births where the mother is aged 20 years or less to one in 60 where the mother is over 45 years old . |